One guest. Five events. Three different answers.

A generic RSVP asks once: are you coming? A South Asian wedding asks five questions across one weekend. Anvaya ships presets for the ceremonies you actually run — mehndi, sangeet, haldi, welcome party, ceremony, reception — and lets you name any other event yourself, from a baraat to a farewell brunch. Each one is its own object with its own date, venue, and guest set. Your guest opens one page and toggles the events on their invitation; you see confirmed, declined, maybe, and pending counts per ceremony, live, the moment they tap.

The answers go deeper than yes or no. A guest can mark maybe while a flight is unbooked, or decline with a one-line note that lands on your dashboard instead of in the email pile. Every plus-one carries their own per-event answer and their own dietary note, so a party of four at the reception and two at the sangeet is two real headcounts, not a guess. And Anvaya watches the matrix for you — it flags the guests who confirmed one ceremony but never answered another, so the Saturday reconciliation becomes a glance instead of a spreadsheet audit.

Most guest lists already exist — in the Google Sheet your mom started in 2024, the Notion table your sister keeps editing, the list your future mother-in-law exported from The Knot last week. Anvaya reads them. Export any of those to a CSV, drop it in, and the AI maps the columns on its own: name, phone, email, side of family, group, plus-ones, tags, and notes. It even infers which side a guest belongs to and how many plus-ones they get from how a row is written — no rigid template to match.

You preview every parsed guest before anything is saved, and the import flags the rows it could not place cleanly so you can fix them with a dropdown. Phone numbers normalize to E.164 for SMS and WhatsApp, likely duplicates are caught against your existing list, and re-importing an updated sheet merges onto the guests you already have. When you'd rather have people add themselves, share a signup link that collects each guest's details — and revoke it the moment you're done.

Every desi caterer wants the same sheet two weeks out: per-ceremony confirmed counts with the meals spelled out. Guests write their needs in plain words on the RSVP — "Jain, no onion-garlic," "nut allergy," "halal" — and Anvaya keeps that note per guest per ceremony, so the same person can be Jain at the mehndi and halal at the reception without a second spreadsheet. Anvaya groups the free-text notes into a clean count across the diets that drive a catering order — vegetarian, vegan, halal, kosher, gluten-free, nut allergy, dairy-free — and when several of them cluster, Anvaya AI turns the counts into a caterer-ready recommendation instead of leaving you to tally "no carbs" against "I eat everything."

The dashboard rolls every per-event RSVP into a ceremony-by-ceremony view — confirmed, pending, and maybe per event — and the CSV export carries one RSVP column per ceremony plus each guest's dietary notes, so the caterer reads the mehndi count and the reception count off the same sheet. Re-export when a cousin RSVPs late or changes their meal, and the numbers are current without you opening a single spreadsheet.